Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-08


leave for them notes that have been cut
leWed, and
SECOND MORTGAGES
On property that will not pay the first"
"Set thy house in order" That is, fix
up things, SO your going out of the world
may make as little CONSERVATION as pos
sihle. See the lean cattle devouring the
fat cattle, snd in the time of plenty pre-
pare for the time Of want. The difficulty
is, when men think Of their death, t3ey
are afraid to think Of it only in conneC-
ton with their spiritual welfare, and not
of the devastation in the household which
will come because of their emigation
from it. 1t is mesnly selfish for you to
be SO absorbed in tle heaven to which
you are going that you forget what Is to
become of your wife and children after
you are dead. You csn go out OF this
world without leaving g dollar, and yet
die happy il you could not provide for
them; you can trust them in the
hands Of God who owns
ell the harvests, and the herds
aud the f ,Cks: but if you could pay the
premiums on policy and neglect them,
it Is mean thing for you TO 90 up TO
heaven while they 60 into the po0rhOuse.
You, st death, move into g mansion, and
they move into two rooms on the fourth
story CT tenement house in back
street. When they are cut at the elbows
and knees, the thought Of your splendid
robe in heaven will not keep them warm.
The minister may preach splendid ser
mon over your remains, and the quartette
may sing like four Spge's in the organ
lofts but your death viii be a swindle.
YoG had the means 10 provide for the
comfort of your household when you left
IT, and You WiCkedly neglected il. 60"
says some one, 81 have more faith than
you; l believe when l = GU. Of this
world, the Lord will provide Tor them"
Go to Blackwell's Islsnd, go through 81.
the pOOrhOuses OF the country, and l WI
show you now often God provides for the
neglected children of neglectful parents.
That is he provides for them through
pu5!ic charity. AS for myself, l would
rather nave the Lord provide for my
family in private home, and through
MY OWN INDUSTRY,
and paternal, and Coniugsl faithfuiness.
/ But saws some man: Il mean in the next
ten or twenty years TO make great
/ fortune, and SO l shall leave my family
when / 90 out of this world, very com
/ Portable" How DO you know you ere
going to live ten or twenty years? II We
could look up the highway oI the future,
we would see 1t crossed by pneumOniss,
and pleursies, ard Consumptions, and
collidi1g rail trains, and runaway horses,
snd breaking bridges, and funeral pro
cessiors. Are you so certain you
are going to live ten or
| twenty years, you can warrant your
household any comfort after you 90
away from them: Beside th&t, the
vast majority of men die poor,
/ Two-only-out Of hundred sue
csed in business. Are you very
certain you are going to be one OF the
two? Rich one day, poor the next. a
man in New ! Ork got s. 10000 and the
money turned his brain and he died in the
!unatic asylum. All his property was left
with the business firm, and they sWampeC
it; and then the family of the insane mar
were left without q dollar In eighteen
months the prosperity, the insanity, the in
sOvenGy and the complete domestic ruin
Beside that, there are men who die
solvent WnO are insOIVept before they ge
under the ground, or before their estate
is settled up. How soon the auCtIODeer':
mallet can knock the life out Of an estate
\ man thinks the property is worth 49,
600; under q forced sale it brings $1,000
The business man takes advantage of tn,
crisis and he c0mpels the widow OF hi
deceased partner to sell out TO him at
RUINOUs PRICE,
or lose all. The stock was supposed Il
be very valuable, but it has been 81
"wsteredn that when the executor trie
to sell II he is laughed out of Wall street
or the administrator is ordered by tn
surrogate to wind up the whole affair
The estate was supposed at the man.
death to be worth $50 600, but after TIT
Indebtedness had been met, and the bill.
Of the doctor, and the undertaken, and tn
tOmbstone-cutter have been paid, there
is nothing left. That means the children
aTe to come home from school and go TX
work That means the complete hardship
Ct the wife. turned out with nothing bu
needle to fight the great battle of tht
world. Tear down the. lambrequins, Close
the piano, rip up the Administer, sell GU
the wardrobe, and let the mother take
child in each hand and trudge out init
the desert OF the world. life insurance
? would have hiIdered all that.
But" SAYS some one, 81 am man O
small means, aud can't afford to pay tn
, premium" That is sometimes g Lawful
} and genuine excuse, and Their
/ IS no answer to 1t; but in nine cases GU
ten when man says thai, ne smokes VI
, IN cigars, and drinks down in wine, sn
] expends in luXuries enough money t
have paid the premium on q life insuranc
e po.icy which would have kept his "a nil
from beggary when be is dead. 4 ma
| ought to put himself down on the strict
2 est economy until be can meet this Chris
tan necessity. You have 70 right to tn
luxuries of life until you have made sue
provisions admlre what was said by Rev
= DR.. Guthrie, the great Scottish preach
j er. A few years before MS death h
! stood in 6 public meeting and declared
5 ''When came to Edinburgh, the Peep!
, sometimes laughed st my blue stocking:
, end ct MY cotton umbrella, and they sal
> > l locked like q common ploughm2n, an
they derided me because l lived in
house for which paid thirty-tive pound
: rent a year, and oftentimes l wake
when l would have teen very glad to hay
Z g cab; bur, gentlemen, | did all OF III:
! because l wanted to
}, PAY THE PREMIUM
$ on life insurance that would keep n
e family comfortable If | should die" Tbs
Y l take to be the right expression Of 4